刺馬 – The Blood Brothers (1973)

Chang Wen Hsiang (David Chiang) and Huang Chung (Chen Kuan-Tai) are modest warriors who are engaged in banditry. But one day, they meet a tough swordsman whose name is Ma Hsin I (Ti Lung) . They want to take his money, but Ma Hsin is quite talented warrior than they expected, and they give up. But Ma Hsin don’t give them up easily, and he suggests them to be team up to eleminate the local bandits and dominate the hills. So they work together, have lots of victory, and their brothership grow stronger. Also Chang Wen‘s girlfriend Mi Lan(Ching Li) fall in love Ma Hsin. Ma Hsin also have feelings to her but he has much bigger ambitions than an ordinary love affair. He works and takes the imperial examination, then leaves his brothers to get military career for higher positions. Later, they are reunited when Ma Hsin has become a general, and he wins much more victories together. But his excessive greed increase his paranoia; provoked by his minions, he thinks his brothers embarrass him and obstruct his promotions. Also he still have some love affair with Mi Lan, and he don’t want to share her.Therefore, Ma Hsin starts to destroy all obstructions between him and his aims and desires, including brothership. But ex-brother Wen Hsiang will come back for last epic duel to take revenge….. an action-drama full of stars by Chang Cheh. Also note that; This is the only movie that Ti Lung play a villain character in his martial art youth movie age…